He may have lost his race in Tuesday's election, but he plans to continue fighting in a state, which is mostly Democratic.

Former Cañon City resident Noah Paul Enslow lost his bid as a Republican candidate for representative in the 47th District of the Connecticut General Assembly.

While waiting for the results, he stayed at the polls until 9 p.m. EST then went to his mother-in-law's house where he learned he had lost the election by about 1,200 votes.

"Obviously, I'm a little disappointed, but not so much," he said. "We went from a no name candidacy to ending within 5 percent in a heavily Democratic state."

He noticed the trend in Connecticut for the candidates was to concede races within 15 or 20 minutes.

"That's what they were wanting from me," Enslow said. "I feel that was a disservice to the people who voted for me. I wouldn't concede until the results all in and visual."

During the recent hurricane, he said he and his family lost electricity for about three days, but this is not the first time.

"The Irene storm the year before, we were without electricity for 10 days," Enslow said.

Enslow isn't giving up on running for a political seat. He is already setting up a blog in a bid to run in two years for General Assembly and may run for another political office.

"The ultimate goal is I've been fielding requests through the candidacy up to the day to put my name in the hat for first selectman or town mayor or president of town council," Enslow said.

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"People out here still want me to do something. I'll find out where we fall in and keep going."

A former Cañon City resident, Enslow is the son of Florence resident Neil Enslow and stepson of Florence Councilwoman Georgia Enslow. He lives in Baltic, Conn., where he works as a dock master technician first class in the electric boat division of General Dynamics Inc. at Groton, Conn.

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